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BBC News
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The government has survived two big challenges to its controversial plans to change the law on embryo research for the first time in 20 years.
A cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote, by 336 to 176.
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Physorg
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Time, as we all know, is relative: good experiences seem to fly by, whereas bad ones seem to drag on forever.
"After two hours, I looked at my watch," a reviewer of Wagnerian opera is said to have written. "I found that 17 minutes had gone by."
In..
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BBC News
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Viagra could be used to help people flying eastwards recover from jetlag, animal research suggests.
A team of Argentine scientists found the drug helped hamsters recover up to 50% faster from forward shifts in their daily time cycles.
However, the d..
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BBC News
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Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin thought the voyage of the Beagle was a "magnificent scheme" allowing him to spend time "larking round the world".
His delight at the five-year cruise is chronicled in a letter, available online for the first time...
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Physorg
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In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature of space and time? After analyzing different pers..
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Independent
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For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas. Environment Editor Geoffrey Lean reports..
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BBC News
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A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a routine operation.
Fertile women release one or more eggs every month, but until now, only animal ovulation has been recorded in detail...
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MSNBC
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At one time, Rocketplane's development schedule called for suborbital spaceflights to begin this year, but corporate complications and engineering considerations have led to revisions in the time line.
Faulkner said Rocketplane Global was still seeking..
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Telegraph
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A scientist has put forward the bizarre suggestion that there are two dimensions of time, not the one that we are all familiar with, and even proposed a way to test his heretical idea next year.
Time is no longer a simple line from the past to the fut..
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BBC News
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The government's failure to get EU subsidies to thousands of farmers on time has been called "a master-class in bad decision making" by MPs.
Defra and its Rural Payments Agency failed in the "basic principles" of project implementation, the Commons Pub..
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Ars Technica
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Around this time two years ago, a strange phenomenon struck the virtual inhabitants of World of Warcraft. A disease designed to be limited to areas accessed by high-level characters managed to make it back to the cities of that virtual world, where it dev..
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CNN
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A volunteer group plans to renew efforts to find a missing pregnant woman, a day after police searched the woman's lover's home for a second time in three days.
The group says it plans to employ the community helpers, sonar equipment and a small drone..
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Physorg
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity and the other forces of nature.
Those..
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CNN
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Michael Esposito rides his bike all the time -- from cold nights when leaving his old job at a natural food store to warm days while passing shops selling yoga clothes and soy drinks.
So the 67-year-old is excited about a new plan to reduce this counte..
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SF Gate
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Ever wish you could reach back in time and change the past? Maybe you'd like to take back an unfortunate voice mail message, or rephrase what you just said to your boss. Or perhaps you've even dreamed of tweaking the outcome of yesterday's lottery to make..
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Space.com
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Thanks to a flotilla of Mars orbiters, there’s been a steady flow of information streaming in from that puzzling world. Scientists are piecing together a far more coherent view of “real time” versus “geological time” in dealing with the whole of..
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